DOCTORS' PATENTS.
A proposal that doctors should .bo allowed to patent their medical discoveries and inventions was keenly debated when the annual' representative meeting of the British Medical Association was held at Eastbourne (England) in July. Dr. A. Lyndon, who moved a resolution to this effect, said it was possible for British doctors to make-valu-able discoveries, and, as they could not patent them, see the discoveries patented and exploited by foreign countries. Dr. E. Si Souttar, London, • said that had tbero been proper patents the whole of tiie aniline dye industry would have belonged -to this country and not to Germany. There would then have been nd war. -Eventually the resolution was vritbdrawn, and an amendment rpoved by Sir Bobert Bolam, Newcastle-on-Tyne,* in favour of adhering to the tradition that it was unethical to reSt the . use of a doctor's inventions fox bis own advantage was carried. In a discussion on the question of .fees for doctors called to road accidents, a doctor who lives on a mam road said he was called out an average f a week to such accidents. From 80 per cent, of the people he attended ho go no f«©> ; • -
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20335, 7 September 1931, Page 7
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